D. Orlando Ledbetter reports that the proposed rookie wage scale could cost Atlanta receiver Julio Jones millions of dollars. The player picked in the same draft spot as Jones (No. 6 overall) last year got a deal with $30 million in guaranteed money. It’s likely the new labor agreement will funnel some guaranteed money away from rookies.

Although there has been some talk about the NFL easing its rules on local television blackouts, the topic didn’t come up at Tuesday’s league meeting as owners focused on the labor situation. If a change hasn’t come by now, it’s rather unlikely anything will be done this season. The Buccaneers failed to sell out a single home game last season and those games were blacked out on local television.